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Yesterday, I was coming back home on my scooter after dropping my son. A person blocked my path and I thought he was trying to cross the street and so I stopped. He said drop me below the bridge (which was at end of the street) and almost forcibly sat on the scooter. I was taken aback and confused by the whole situation, and I was kind of forced to give him a lift. Encountering such a situation for the first time in my decades of riding a two-wheeler! It's indeed a bad bad world!

It is enjoyable some times when you dont have much work in office, and it is never enjoyable to have too much work and pressure, and just after a stressful delivery, a few days of perfect joblessness is ok, but not having enough to do for a continuous long period is painful. Joined my current company more than 6 months back and after a few pre-project assignment days, the work started and the intial period was stressful. Sprint means this project is a real sprint with sprint duration of just 2 weeks. So every 2 weeks we have to have the rituals namely planning, retrospective, demos, and backlog refinement meetings. Every 2 weeks we need to come up with work to keep the team engaged for the next 2 weeks, and my role is key to giving work to the team. It was stressful for the first 4 months or so, now it has become routine and work quantity has become less which sometimes makes it tough.  Though it is WFH and have some other personal responsibilities at home, it is maddening at times...

I posted my first blog a few weeks ago and wanted to post regularly. But it feels that there are some requirements on your personality if you want to regularly get blogworthy content, such as you should be strongly opinionated, travel regularly, or should be an intellectual.  Many people tend to analyze and intellectualize everything and I think they would have regular contents for a blog. There are many theories such as mental models , biases etc and every social situation can be linked to one of these models, but personally I don't like to intellectualize too much and just go with the flow. So, cannot write a blog for these situations. I feel no one should have the compulsion to write a regular column on periodicals because with forced regularity, the quality is bound to come down. Of late have been following Kapil Gupta MD ( Look him up on the internet) and his teachings are that most of the things are meaningless and Truth is the only thing. Definitely if I subscribe to this ...

It was our first trip as family in 3 years after we cancelled our plans for Tadoba Tiger reserve on early 2020 due to the Covid. Highlights of the trip: Shatabdi train journeys to and fro from Pune. (Thanks, irctc for re-introducing this service, at last just now after withdrawing this route during Covid. Better late than never) ! Rishabh (son) appreciates everything generally in life and he (and we too), enjoyed the journey, which offered for viewing a lot of fields and majestic windmills and sightings of cranes on the fields! Visited Sri Ramanujacharya statue. Another highlight. The statue is good watch from a distance as soon as you enter and also when you walk right under it as part of the walking tour. (It's the world's second biggest sitting statue, after that of Buddha in one of the eastern countries). Good for Bhakthi also, as it has a replica of all the 108 Vaishnavite Divya desams with a priest in each of them doing the archanais and the other rituals. And the laddu p...